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- Drew - 07-29-2006
Jumilla Spain. Monsatrell.
Even better than the '04. Wonderfully concentrated and a bit rustic showing blackberry and dark fruit, red berry, bittersweet chocolate, truffle and a hint of licorice. Plenty of fine grained tannins on the midpalate and finish should help in short term cellering. For my $ this is the best Luzon so far. 14.5% Alc/vol. $7.99
Drew
- dananne - 07-29-2006
This is good news. Thanks for the notes.
- Thomas - 07-30-2006
14.5%? That seems excessive.
- Drew - 07-30-2006
That's the one thing that drives me CRAZY about most wines, Foodie. The continuing increasing levels of alcohol. It seems that wines destined for the American market have higher alcohol levels. Europeans consume as much alcohol, I assume, what's driving this market?
Drew
- brappy - 07-30-2006
Foodie, I've had this wine on two seperate occasions. The wine is very well balanced. I'd almost say graceful. Maybe others that have tried this can chime in, but I did NOT get any unbalanced high Alcohol in the nose or palate of this wine. Definately not hot at all.....
The price of this wine makes this a great qpr.
mark
- Thomas - 07-30-2006
Well, a quick look-up tells me the wine generally is high in alcohol, but I have always equated that with 13 to 14%--tops.
Not having tasted this one, I suppose if it didn't bother Drew, and Mark thinks it's balanced, they must have gotten away with the alcohol, which of course could be as low as 13%--won't even think in the other direction...
I'm sipping a Vinho Verde (9% alc) here in hot, humid, NY State--can't imagine any more alcohol than that today.